Buzzy Bee gets to stay home from school today since the promise of real, honest-to-goodness, orange, elbow noodle macaroni & cheese (not that homemade panko-topped, nutmeg-laced, white cheddar and gruyère nonsense foisted off as such) was enough to merit a star and circle on the school lunch calendar two weeks ago.
There will be broccoli, a whole grain roll, and a trip to the vegetation station, but there will be no note to add to her 133-piece collection of piggies, snails, octopuses, and other marker-on-index card masterpieces.
With sweet-and-sour chicken over brown rice on the cafeteria's docket for Thursday, it's back to the grind for Buzzy Bee.
That trip to Aruba will have to wait.